Sidney

Good Morning Beth,

You wrote an article in the Times-Union in late December 2013 about Patrick McLaughlin and his encounter with pancreatic cancer. You put me in touch with Pat. I have become a committee member of the Florida Pancreas Cancer Coalition of which Pat is the founder and am currently the webmaster of their website FLPCC.ORG . I am one of a few in this area that did not have their Whipple procedure at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville. I had my Whipple and pancreatic cancer treatment at the Duke University Cancer Center in 2013. I lived with my daughter in Apex, NC, for eight months while getting my treatment at DUMC. I was born in Charleston, SC, and lived there for fifty years before my job moved me to southeast Georgia. I think you told me you are from Rock Hill and a graduate of Clemson. My wife graduated from Winthrop in 1969. It was still a girls college at that time.

You wrote an article in the Times-Union recently about another person who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer who is from Ponte Vedre Beach. Her name is Judi Zitiello. Please put me in touch with her. The Florida Pancreas Cancer Coalition is having a Symposium at the Sheraton Jacksonville Hotel on the evening of October 23, 2013, and would like to invite Judi to attend (http://www.flpcc.org/1033/Page.aspx). We have several doctors from the Mayo Clinic and one doctor from the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston speaking at the Symposium. Judi’s surgeon, Dr. Asbun, will be one of the speakers.

Thank you,

Sidney Walker